{"id":6266,"date":"2012-07-05T15:45:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T19:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/?p=6266"},"modified":"2012-08-07T14:53:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T18:53:13","slug":"worthwhile-reads-on-politics-religion-and-libertarianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2012\/07\/worthwhile-reads-on-politics-religion-and-libertarianism.html","title":{"rendered":"Worthwhile Reads: On Politics, Religion, and Libertarianism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

After the two posts I wrote yesterday, I thought I\u2019d offer some on related themes from a couple blogs I read:<\/p>\n

Libertarianism, Patriotism, and Starting Points: How I Apparently Became a Pinko\u00a0Commie<\/a>, by Sierra<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve been brainwashed by those bleeding heart liberal college professors of yours.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

I stared at him. I hadn\u2019t changed my position on issues of poverty and structural inequality at all. I had simply learned to talk about them using the appropriate terms.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re a feminazi now,\u201d he joked. And then he proceeded to lecture me on free-market economics\u2026 as though I hadn\u2019t spent my whole youth listening to conservative Christian radio, watching the conservative news with him, debating with my libertarian friends, or hearing periodic rants from him and from the pulpit about the Democrats being salivating sex fiends addicted to abortion who want to set up a nanny state and turn the whole world gay, then urinate on the cross and shoot Christians.<\/p>\n

It was surreal.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Christian Left, Part 1<\/a>, by Katy-Anne<\/p>\n

Today, I \u201cliked\u201d a page on Facebook called \u201cThe Christian Left\u201d and shared two of its pictures on my own personal Facebook page. The very first comment I got was from a tea party conservative which simply said\u00a0the \u201cChristian\u201d Left? <\/em>insinuating that one could not be Christian and politically left. I know of good Christian people who are liberal and good Christian people who are conservative, and while I would never indicate that you can\u2019t be Christian and liberal, or can\u2019t be Christian and conservative, for me it is harder to imagine being conservative and being able to live by Christian values. However, it appears that many Christian conservatives don\u2019t believe one can be both a Christian and liberal, so I thought I would write some posts on why I, as a Christian, choose to be a liberal rather than a conservative.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Christian Left, Part 2<\/a>, by Katy-Anne<\/p>\n

I totally get that our faith influences our political decisions (it\u2019s why I choose to be a moderate that currently leans left), what I don\u2019t understand is that people who trust in Jesus for their eternal destiny would suddenly not trust that he cares and knows about what is going on in the country and that he can handle it. If Jesus can\u00a0save us from our sins, can\u2019t he be working behind the scenes in America despite which political party is in power? It troubles me to see how\u00a0devastated\u00a0some Christians get when the right is not in power. It troubles me to see how ugly and disrespectful some conservative Christians can be to government they disagree with, it troubles me to see what extremes some conservative Christians will go to. After all, I thought Christians believed that God was ultimately in control, so why all the panic?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2018Libertarianism is [not] a philosophy of individual freedom\u2019<\/a>, on The Slacktivist<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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